Sentences with phrase «as a democrat»

Why is Mr. Philpotts, and not the county machine, in control of who runs as a Democrat in the May 5 special election?

Democratic power brokers, past and present, couldn't keep a political gadfly from running as a Democrat in a Brooklyn special election.

Mr. Buck has built his campaign around the notion that he is the outsider, playing that card to the hilt as he traveled the state to meet with Tea Party activists and like - minded groups while castigating Congressional Republicans as well as Democrats for the nation's economic straits.

My friends from upstate will tell you that that is not a winning strategy to get elected as a Democrat in upstate New York.»

[9] Smith withdrew from the race on June 6, 2017, after the Miami Herald reported that he had not been registered as a Democrat for at least a year before running, contradicting the oath he took when he filed to run.

Respondents who identified as Democrats tended to like the brands more, while those who identified as Republicans didn't show a significant change in opinion.

The governor, who spent the weekend holding several rallies for Democrats, urged voters to back Hillary Clinton for president as well as Democrats running down ballot in key swing districts.

Senators elected as Democrats who vote for a Republican Majority Leader are traitors to the party — pure and simple — and should be expelled from the party and never given the opportunity to run on a Democratic line again.

The governor's full - throated endorsement of Gaughran in a battleground Senate district held by longtime incumbent Republican Carl Marcellino comes as Democrats hope for unexpected wins on Long Island next month, helping them to retake control of the Senate.

Senate Republicans on Wednesday sought to turn the page on the controversy even as Democrats seek an investigation.

Jahar Abraham, who ran for a D.C. Council seat last year as a Democrat also said he found his party registration erased when he went to vote Tuesday.

Now Bohen follows to Albany the same path established by Kearns in 2012, who back then won his own special election to a vacant seat by running as a Democrat on the Republican and Conservative lines.

In 2001, the longtime Republican ran as a Democrat against District Attorney James Catterson Jr., who had lost the favor of police unions, and defeated him after a particularly contentious campaign.

State Sen. Diane Savino weighed in on the controversy not just as a Democrat representing the North Shore and Brooklyn - but as former president of the Conference of Italian - American Legislators.

There were more than three times as many Republicans as Democrats in the bedroom community in 1960 when the population was just under 60,000, according to numbers from Erie County's Board of Elections.

Chad Putman, an LGBT advocate who ran for the State Senate as a Democrat last year against now - Sen.

Of course, Lieberman had held office as a Democrat for years and had a base of public support.

Baca previously served in Congress as a Democrat from 1999 to 2013, before losing to fellow Democrat Gloria Negrete McLeod.

Trickledown is as much as a Democrat theory as Republican.

Warren stated, «Look, this is a real problem, but what we've got to do as Democrats now, is we've got to

But it all came back to me in Harlem where New York Rep. Charlie Rangel was asking voters to send him on to compete for a 21st term in the Congress as a Democrat even though he was facing 13 ethics charges back in Washington.

A Kaminsky win would break the Republican hold on Long Island Senate seats as Democrats seek to gain full control of the chamber this year.

The Senate is once again a key flashpoint in this year's down - ballot elections as Democrats seek to gain a majority eight years after losing control following a tumultuous, two - year term.

Scott Comegys, an alpaca farmer, comes into the race as a Democrat with no prior political experience.

WESTFORD, New York (March 13, 2018)-- Local tech project manager and grassroots activist Chad McEvoy today announced his campaign as a Democrat for New York State Assembly in the 101st District, which includes portions of Delaware, Herkimer, Oneida, Orange, Otsego, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties.

(Reuters)-- Arkansas Lieutenant Governor Mark Darr, under political siege from fellow Republicans as well as Democrats after admitting to numerous violations of state ethics laws, announced on Friday that he would resign effective February 1.

Updated: John Brooks registered to vote as a Democrat just before the election.

According to the board of elections, Graff enrolled as a Democrat after Oct. 15 last year, thus making her ineligible to vote in a party primary in 2016.

Governors races in New Jersey and Virginia dropped off the list as Democrats held both in the 2005 election.

WWNYTV April 8, 2018 With less than a week before petitions need to be filed to be on the ballot as a democrat running for New York's 21st Congressional district, candidate Tedra Cobb was making her rounds on this side of the district.

New Mexico: Just as Democrats looked to be running out of options in their search for an alternative to Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez, Rep. Tom Udall (cousin to the Colorado Senate candidate) decides that he is interested in running for the Senate after all.

Republicans are scrambling, big time, to shelter in place as Democrats prepare to take office in Nassau County and Hempstead Town.

The news — delivered last week by campaign brain Michael Dawidziak — that Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy hoped until the very end to run for governor as a Democrat really tweaked Suffolk GOP Chairman John Jay LaValle (in photo).

The tepid reaction to DeVos's selection among liberal and moderate education - reform groups such as Democrats for Education Reform and Education Trust may indicate new and deepened fault lines within the ed - reform coalition.

It's all about finishing first or second, although the political parties portray the race as Democrats versus Republicans.

The endorsement comes as Democrats hope Brooks's race in the 8th Senate district is newly competitive after Venditto's father, Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, along with Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, were charged in an alleged bribery plot.

Well before I ever arrived as a student at Boston College Law School, the Rev. Robert F. Drinan had left his post there as dean to run for Congress, where he served five terms in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat from Massachusetts.

Tom Dadey, chairman of the Onondaga County Republican Committee, says as Democrats run more candidates in the county legislature this fall, Republicans will run more candidates in the city of Syracuse.

Materna is president of Pleasant Plains, Prince's Bay, Richmond Valley Civic Association and ran against Ignizio for City Council as a Democrat in 2009 before changing her party affiliation to Republican in 2012.

Political insiders say Republican Nassau Comptroller George Maragos has met with Nassau Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs about the possibility of running for county executive as a Democrat next year — though neither will confirm the discussions.

We'll lay aside his outsized ambition, his reputation as a bully and his sheer ineffectiveness as a Democrat representing parts of Brooklyn and Queens.

He sits with the hard core mainline Democrats who are too dysfunctional to form a majority otherwise they'd be in control now as Democrats already have a numerical majority.

The Democrats will only have a chance against McCain - Powell if Hillary emerges as the Democrat candidate.

only you'll say or write anything so long as the democrat wins.

The race has become increasingly heated, as the Democrats believe they have a good chance at picking up the seat.

Fowler had originally planned to run for mayor as a Democrat, but did not submit petitions to get on the primary ballot.

And there have been other squeakers for town board and other seats,» said longtime Olive political player John Parete, who served as the Democrats chairman for years and is now a county legislator (as well as owner of the Boiceville Inn).

Jimmy Fugel, the town's highway superintendent, will run for re-election as a Democrat unopposed, at least as of press time, while Republican incumbent town justice Tim Cox was expected to be nominated as well, again without opposition.